This author wrote an elegy to Samuel Cooper, as well as an elegy on the death of her father addressed to Mary Moorhead. One poem by this author begins "'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land," and expresses appreciation at being taught Christianity. She was able to publish her writing after a group of the leading citizens of Boston interrogated her to confirm that she was able to write poems de
This author wrote an elegy to Samuel Cooper, as well as an elegy on the death of her father addressed to Mary Moorhead. One poem by this author begins "'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land," and expresses appreciation at being taught Christianity. She was able to publish her writing after a group of the leading citizens of Boston interrogated her to confirm that she was able to write poems despite not being white. For 10 points, name this eighteenth century female African-American poet.
This author wrote an elegy to Samuel Cooper, as well as an elegy on the death of her father addressed to Mary Moorhead.
Phillis {Wheatley}